Repubs are predicting they may lose up to 20 seats in the House?

[kentuck]

They wish! They will be lucky bastards if that is all they lose. The Republican brand should not only be pulled off the shelf, it should be taken to the trash dump and buried. After that, the FTC should ban the label from ever being used again. The fascists do not have the best interests of our country at heart, intentional or not.

[Gman]

1. Democrats could pick up 30 - 35 seats

and maybe another 5 Senate seats.

[BrklynLib at work]

2. Well put. If they are saying 20 out loud, they must be fearing a lot more behind closed doors.

[kentuck]

4. Double that.

maybe more?

[ThomWV]

3. I heard an estimate of their future losses this morning, 12 was the number

12 in the House and 5 in the Senate. Sounded way low to me.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I'd be happy if we picked up 20 seats

that would make it 256 to 179.

My dream is that we pick up at least 5-6 seats in the Senate & tell Lieberman to get lost.

[Jack from Charlotte]

11. Agreee. I'd take 20 today. Think it's more like 10 to 15. On the senate side...

I think, perhaps 4 to 6.

Would love to get to 60, but I can't see it.

I, too would love to see Lieberman stripped of his chairmanship and tossed from the Dem caucus.

I'd also like to see Wexler as Speaker of The House and Biden Senate leader.

[NewJeffCT]

14. A few years back

Dodd had challenged Daschle for the leadership and lost a close vote. I wonder if Dodd has another run in him? Or, do you think Dems will keep Reid in place?

[kentuck]

16. How many did they win in the last election?

Wasn't it like 30 seats? i don't see why they couldn't do just as well this time around, especially with the high turnout for a popular Presidential candidate? Yours is a very conservative estimate, in my opinion.

[hisownpetard]

6. Twenty seats? Phhhhhhtt!

I'm hoping that the Republican party is blown to smithereens, destroyed beyond any hopes of rebuilding.

The damage they have done to this country and the world at large, the hundreds of thousands of lives they have obliterated,
the lies they have told, the crimes they have condoned and perpetrated against a faithful people, the civil rights
they have trampled on and the patriotic citizens they have abused, the fear they have encouraged, the people
they have tortured and maimed, the billions of dollars they have stolen...

May they be held accountable for all they've done, come November.

[Stuart G]

12. Yes, I agree "hisownpetard" ...blow them apart...

We need a new opposing party that knows the difference between truth and lies. These assholes forgot what they learned in kindergarten about the truth...."hundreds of thousands of lives they have obliterate............"..says it all

[hisownpetard]

21. With all my heart, I hope the country turns out in droves to show Bush and McCain that we want

no part of their evil and their lies.

I hope we shame those who can't be shamed and show the rest of the world that the citizens of this country
do not approve of nor condone the disgusting behavior of our un-elected "leader" and his cohorts in crime
over the last excruciating 7+ years.

[Glorfindel]

7. Intentional? Of course it is. The 'pukes are not poor, deluded slobs

(the powerful, "elected" ones, that is)...they WANT to dismember this country's institutions for their own benefit, and they don't care what they destroy or whom they hurt in the process.

[suston96]

8. That's good news, but....what about the US Senate? That's where there is a problem right now....nt

[WilliamPitt]

9. We'll pick up six unless things really go sideways.

And Virginia will have two Democratic Senators.

Unreal.

[kentuck]

10. I have hopes that Lindsey Graham will lose in SC...

He has been a strong supporter of John McCain and that does not sit well with a lot of Republicans in that state. On top of that, Obama is very popular in that state, especially with African Americans, and that could be an upset we are not looking at yet.

[NewJeffCT]

15. Who is challenging Graham on our side?

The best pickup opps for us are Virginia, Minn, NH, Maine, Colorado & Oregon, I believe. Not sure if I've seen SC listed as a possibility?

The most vulnerable is Landrieau in Louisiana.

[backscatter712]

13. Think we could drive the Republicans into the same fate as the Whigs?

I'd love to see that.

[NewJeffCT]

17. that is my dream

Have them split into two parties - the theocracy party & the corporate party, ensuring Dem control for at least a decade. Hopefully, we could reform the court system in that time.

[Winterblues]

18. It would be nice if we could win back the hundred plus seats we lost in '94

People just don't seem to realize how devastating our loss in '94 really was. In 2006 democrats won twenty some seats and thought we really accomplished something..

[Leafy Geneva]

22. Actually, we lost a net of 54 seats in 1994

And it was devastating indeed. We went from 258/176 (Dem/Rep) split to a 204/230 split and so, lost our majority. This is something that had not happened since 1952 when the Republicans won a majority that lasted for a brief 2 years. What I thought was really devastating is how over the next 5 congressional elections we could not manage to win back 12 of those seats to reclaim the natural Democratic majority. We had to endure 12 years(1995 to 2007) of a Republican majority in the House. That did not change until the election of 2006 with Howard Dean as chairman of the DNC and his 50 state strategy.

[Fireweed247]

19. so they know they are going down!

:applause:
Maybe you should have stopped appeasing the new Hitler with your votes you idiots!

But don't forget we have some fascist Dems in the party that need to be thrown out in the primaries...
Go Shirley Golub! The last thing we need is for the House to still be led by Nancy Pelosi....we need to Demand Dennis Kucinich as Speaker!!
www.peacecandidates.com

[Wilber_Stool]

20. I predict a super majority in both houses.

If that's the case, the pubs better be ready to go out for pizza when needed. If not, I don't see any reason for them to be there at all.
It's time to remove the stain of republicanism from this country forever.

[jmowreader]

23. Republican: the "Cocoanut Grove" of the 21st Century

The Cocoanut Grove was a nightclub in Boston. No...it was THE nightclub in Boston. To make a long story short, the Cocoanut Grove burned down, hundreds of people died, and an ordinance was passed banning anyone from ever naming anything in Boston the Cocoanut Grove again.

When the Republican Party burns down in November 2008, after having laid waste to the United States for decades on end, the FEC needs to pass a ruling that no party can ever be called the Republican Party again.